Der Band führt in die Theorie und Praxis einer zentralen Organisationsform der Demokratie
ein, in den Parlamentarismus. Angesprochen werden die Geschichte und theoretischen …

The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing
parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by …

In this article, we introduce a Gendered Workplace Approach for studying the gendered
nature of parliaments. This approach, which is informed by a feminist institutionalist …

One of the strands in the growing scholarship on political advisers in parliamentary
democracies proposes that advisers can reduce the risk of civil service politicization by …

Members of parliament in representative democracies can be considered as representative
elites, since they have decisive impact on policies and the institutional order of the polity and …

Although a large number of normative and empirical scholars are dealing with the question
whether descriptive representation is required for a functioning representational relationship …

Our study examines the extent to which parliamentary candidates believe that membership
of a certain social group allows Members of Parliament (MPs) to more effectively represent …

In mixed-member proportional systems with closed party lists, such as the German
Bundestag election, candidates' electoral fate is widely determined by their placement on …

The scholarship on political careers and recruitment has increasingly focused on the
conditions that foster the emergence of new political elites. However, top politicians in …

Zusammenfassung ‚Abgehoben 'und ‚entkoppelt 'sind Zuschreibungen, die in der
öffentlichen Kritik und wissenschaftlichen Debatte regelmäßig mit Abgeordneten verbunden …